Remember that expenses for education to get yourself re-employed (books, classes, certification testing, etc.) are all tax deductible.
This is true. You can take all the courses and seminars you want, and deduct all the costs, if they're related to a field in which you're already established. But for costs to establish yourself in a new field, you can't deduct a penny.
how feasible is a maglev system in the US? yeah, it's a pipe dream, but imagine...
Boston to NYC. LA to San Fran. maybe even a network of the major cities.
It's not maglev, but high speed rail from LA to San Francisco is in the works. CA has already passed a $9B bond issue to pay for it. It will go through Fresno, and supposedly from LA to SF in under 3 hours.
It will sure beat the hell out of an 8 hour drive, or paying $450 for a short-notice purchase of an airline ticket!
...trains may seem wonderful. However, with the amounts of investment required, you're pretty much stuck with the original route for the next 100 years or so. Planes, trucks, and cars, OTOH, can be re-routed as needed, like packets on the internet.
Some car brands, the "enthusiast" makes, have a community built around them, with many suppliers of aftermarket parts, and service and repair information traded among their fans. The same is true of some computers -- Thinkpads, Toughbooks, Powerbooks, the better Toshibas, and maybe a few others. With these brands there always seems to be a community of people trading parts and information, and gurus to turn to for support. I can get virtually anything I need for a Thinkpad on eBay. There are dealers and tinkerers who refurbish, repair, and sell old ones, etc. The key is to stick with these brands.
I wonder what took them so long...
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The real news here is that it took them so long! I sort of assumed they were doing this kind of thing already -- the fraud prevention stuff goes without saying, but I'm surprised they haven't been analyzing playing patterns with this technology too.
The GIMP is as byzantine a program as has ever been written. Features are haphazardly stuffed into menus anywhere they can be made to fit. File management is a horror, with stale motif-like file manager widgets that lack sensible defaults, and don't remember where you are. And that's just for starters. Using The GIMP is not just a matter of being accustomed to something else. It's just plain diffcult, nonintuitive, an example of lousy GUI design. I can only hope the new version is better.
...and Spanish passports, and Italian passports, etc., whether they come from these countries or not. Getting honorary citezenships based on ancestry, business ownership, "artist" status, or whatever is trivial. Many people I know have several passports. I bet some of the 9/11 terrorists had one or more European passports too, whether or not that's where they were from.
They don't give you a loan -- they make an investment in you, and expect to make a profit on the return, by taking a percentage of your earnings later on. It's an interesting concept, well worth checking out.
The real killer cost of college is not tuition, but living expenses while you're in school. Public universities all over the US cost nearly the same, but living expenses across the country vary *incredibly*. For example, you probably can't live on less than $2k a month in the Bay Area or Boston. But you could live very comfortably on less than half that while going to Virginia Tech. UC Berkeley and VA Tech cost about the same, tuition wise, but the latter is much, much cheaper when living expenses are considered.
Of course, that's for in-state tuition. Out of state rates are about three times as much. So it could really pay to establish residency beforehand.
Cost of living is one of the main reasons American families are sending their kids to school in Canada. Exchange rates being what they are, it's cheaper to live in Vancouver, the most expensive city in Canada, than most cities in the US. Tuition for excellent Canadian universities is lower too, but it's the cost of living that makes the big difference.
You may feel like you're missing out if you don't go to a top notch tech school, or in a noted tech area like Silicon Valley or Boston. But if you're truly talented enough to benefit from this, the money will find you anyway. If you're not the next Bill Joy, then you really ought to think twice about running up those bills -- especially in the face of an uncertain future for the average American tech worker.
...before it goes down the tubes, and sounds like everything else. They'll start out good like FM did, but when they finally build an audience, they'll cheap it out until it sounds just like Clearchannel (which is a major investor, BTW).
I agree that if the contract says "unlimited," the meaning of that is pretty clear, but...
Who in hell has time to *use* all that downloaded material? How many movies can you watch in a month? How much music can you listen to? How much software do you need, or can you even use? How much porn?
With this kind of gluttony, one might wonder what this stuff is really being used for -- redistribution, perhaps?
...like the software didn't hijack file types, or otherwise fuck up my settings -- and that it uninstalled cleanly, without leaving chaff all over my hard drive, and crud in my Registry. I could go further, demanding that all data and settings go to standard locations -- and that directory trees are easy to understand, with names that make sense.
But nah, as long as they're writing Windows(TM) software, they can write any old shit they want.
And you can't deny the usability of having an active HTML link embedded in an email.
Almost all modern mail clients automatically recognize HTML links, highlight them with blue/colored text, and make them clickable. You don't need HTML mail to do this.
and mom-n-pop will be pissed when they find out that their favourite bridge program and recipie categorizer doesn't run on their new machine.
True, but if this thing starts selling in anywhere near Wal-Mart volumes, there will be plenty of recipe categorizers, games, and everything else before too long.
The USA really needs to move their steel industry in this direction, but instead they leveled tariffs on imported steel. (now dropped after trade-war threats)
I'm not so sure it was trade war threats as much as realizing many more American companies and workers benefit from cheap imported steel, than a few steel companies and workers do from the tariffs.
Now here's the really interesting part. Forgetting for a moment Diebold's voting machines, let's look at the other equipment they make. Diebold makes a lot of ATM machines. They make machines that sell tickets for trains and subways. They make store checkout scanners, including self-service scanners. They make machines that allow access to buildings for people with magnetic cards. They make machines that use magnetic cards for payment in closed systems like university dining rooms. All of these are machines that involve data input that results in a transaction, just like a voting machine. But unlike a voting machine, every one of these other kinds of Diebold machines -- EVERY ONE -- creates a paper trail and can be audited. Would Citibank have it any other way? Would Home Depot? Would the CIA? Of course not. These machines affect the livelihood of their owners. If they can't be audited they can't be trusted. If they can't be trusted they won't be used.
Every one creates a paper trail? Have you seen it? How does it work? How is this different from any other kind of human-readable data dump, besides being on paper, and how do we know we can trust it?
I think the only way to do this is to require that the software be completely open source, with the code posted on the internet for anyone to audit. I've heard this is what the Australians have done. There's still plenty of money to be made supplying the hardware, and deploying and managing the system.
Really, my Republican Party is successful because not everyone wants to be president, and, we are willing to "take one for the team", in order to get our overall agenda passed.
No, the Republican party is successful because they're willing to lie, cheat, slander, and prostitute themselves for the team, and becuase they will never speak ill of a fellow Republican, no matter what a scoundrel he is. So the alpha- shitheads make it to the top, and the sheeplike shitheads in the rank and file will have nothing to say about it, let alone be able to offer better alternatives. So we get morons like the Bushes, Michael Huffington, Dan Quayle, Jesse Helms, Fritz Hollings, etc., and the party thinks it's just great.
I was firmly on the Reagan bandwagon, but since then the party has gone right down the toilet. I cannot stand their Archie-Bunker-baiting, robber-baron-pandering, religious posturing, goon-squad politics.
I like the idea of a finished, small, and featureful device that uses the music already on your computer on your big stereo. The problem is that this thing costs waaaaay to much. I'd pay a hundred for it, a hundred 125 tops.
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Remember that expenses for education to get yourself re-employed (books, classes, certification testing, etc.) are all tax deductible.
This is true. You can take all the courses and seminars you want, and deduct all the costs, if they're related to a field in which you're already established. But for costs to establish yourself in a new field, you can't deduct a penny.
...you need to learn how to type!
how feasible is a maglev system in the US? yeah, it's a pipe dream, but imagine...
Boston to NYC. LA to San Fran. maybe even a network of the major cities.
It's not maglev, but high speed rail from LA to San Francisco is in the works. CA has already passed a $9B bond issue to pay for it. It will go through Fresno, and supposedly from LA to SF in under 3 hours.
It will sure beat the hell out of an 8 hour drive, or paying $450 for a short-notice purchase of an airline ticket!
...it goes from where no one lives to where no one works.
...trains may seem wonderful. However, with the amounts of investment required, you're pretty much stuck with the original route for the next 100 years or so. Planes, trucks, and cars, OTOH, can be re-routed as needed, like packets on the internet.
Some car brands, the "enthusiast" makes, have a community built around them, with many suppliers of aftermarket parts, and service and repair information traded among their fans. The same is true of some computers -- Thinkpads, Toughbooks, Powerbooks, the better Toshibas, and maybe a few others. With these brands there always seems to be a community of people trading parts and information, and gurus to turn to for support. I can get virtually anything I need for a Thinkpad on eBay. There are dealers and tinkerers who refurbish, repair, and sell old ones, etc. The key is to stick with these brands.
The real news here is that it took them so long! I sort of assumed they were doing this kind of thing already -- the fraud prevention stuff goes without saying, but I'm surprised they haven't been analyzing playing patterns with this technology too.
The GIMP is as byzantine a program as has ever been written. Features are haphazardly stuffed into menus anywhere they can be made to fit. File management is a horror, with stale motif-like file manager widgets that lack sensible defaults, and don't remember where you are. And that's just for starters. Using The GIMP is not just a matter of being accustomed to something else. It's just plain diffcult, nonintuitive, an example of lousy GUI design. I can only hope the new version is better.
...and Spanish passports, and Italian passports, etc., whether they come from these countries or not. Getting honorary citezenships based on ancestry, business ownership, "artist" status, or whatever is trivial. Many people I know have several passports. I bet some of the 9/11 terrorists had one or more European passports too, whether or not that's where they were from.
They don't give you a loan -- they make an investment in you, and expect to make a profit on the return, by taking a percentage of your earnings later on. It's an interesting concept, well worth checking out.
http://www.reg.uci.edu/registrar/soc/fees.html
That's $2k a quarter, $6k a year. And this is only since the 30% increase last summer -- it was only $4k before that.
It might cost you $25k/year total to attend school in CA, but most of that is cost of living, which was my original point.
The real killer cost of college is not tuition, but living expenses while you're in school. Public universities all over the US cost nearly the same, but living expenses across the country vary *incredibly*. For example, you probably can't live on less than $2k a month in the Bay Area or Boston. But you could live very comfortably on less than half that while going to Virginia Tech. UC Berkeley and VA Tech cost about the same, tuition wise, but the latter is much, much cheaper when living expenses are considered.
Of course, that's for in-state tuition. Out of state rates are about three times as much. So it could really pay to establish residency beforehand.
Cost of living is one of the main reasons American families are sending their kids to school in Canada. Exchange rates being what they are, it's cheaper to live in Vancouver, the most expensive city in Canada, than most cities in the US. Tuition for excellent Canadian universities is lower too, but it's the cost of living that makes the big difference.
You may feel like you're missing out if you don't go to a top notch tech school, or in a noted tech area like Silicon Valley or Boston. But if you're truly talented enough to benefit from this, the money will find you anyway. If you're not the next Bill Joy, then you really ought to think twice about running up those bills -- especially in the face of an uncertain future for the average American tech worker.
...you witless geek!
...before it goes down the tubes, and sounds like everything else. They'll start out good like FM did, but when they finally build an audience, they'll cheap it out until it sounds just like Clearchannel (which is a major investor, BTW).
I agree that if the contract says "unlimited," the meaning of that is pretty clear, but...
Who in hell has time to *use* all that downloaded material? How many movies can you watch in a month? How much music can you listen to? How much software do you need, or can you even use? How much porn?
With this kind of gluttony, one might wonder what this stuff is really being used for -- redistribution, perhaps?
...like the software didn't hijack file types, or otherwise fuck up my settings -- and that it uninstalled cleanly, without leaving chaff all over my hard drive, and crud in my Registry. I could go further, demanding that all data and settings go to standard locations -- and that directory trees are easy to understand, with names that make sense.
But nah, as long as they're writing Windows(TM) software, they can write any old shit they want.
Try Amaya, from the W3C themselves.
...playing for the sad souls at SCO...
...that is the question... ...OSX, OtherNix too...
And you can't deny the usability of having an active HTML link embedded in an email.
Almost all modern mail clients automatically recognize HTML links, highlight them with blue/colored text, and make them clickable. You don't need HTML mail to do this.
and mom-n-pop will be pissed when they find out that their favourite bridge program and recipie categorizer doesn't run on their new machine.
True, but if this thing starts selling in anywhere near Wal-Mart volumes, there will be plenty of recipe categorizers, games, and everything else before too long.
The USA really needs to move their steel industry in this direction, but instead they leveled tariffs on imported steel. (now dropped after trade-war threats)
I'm not so sure it was trade war threats as much as realizing many more American companies and workers benefit from cheap imported steel, than a few steel companies and workers do from the tariffs.
Now here's the really interesting part. Forgetting for a moment Diebold's voting machines, let's look at the other equipment they make. Diebold makes a lot of ATM machines. They make machines that sell tickets for trains and subways. They make store checkout scanners, including self-service scanners. They make machines that allow access to buildings for people with magnetic cards. They make machines that use magnetic cards for payment in closed systems like university dining rooms. All of these are machines that involve data input that results in a transaction, just like a voting machine. But unlike a voting machine, every one of these other kinds of Diebold machines -- EVERY ONE -- creates a paper trail and can be audited. Would Citibank have it any other way? Would Home Depot? Would the CIA? Of course not. These machines affect the livelihood of their owners. If they can't be audited they can't be trusted. If they can't be trusted they won't be used.
Every one creates a paper trail? Have you seen it? How does it work? How is this different from any other kind of human-readable data dump, besides being on paper, and how do we know we can trust it?
I think the only way to do this is to require that the software be completely open source, with the code posted on the internet for anyone to audit. I've heard this is what the Australians have done. There's still plenty of money to be made supplying the hardware, and deploying and managing the system.
Really, my Republican Party is successful because not everyone wants to be president, and, we are willing to "take one for the team", in order to get our overall agenda passed.
No, the Republican party is successful because they're willing to lie, cheat, slander, and prostitute themselves for the team, and becuase they will never speak ill of a fellow Republican, no matter what a scoundrel he is. So the alpha- shitheads make it to the top, and the sheeplike shitheads in the rank and file will have nothing to say about it, let alone be able to offer better alternatives. So we get morons like the Bushes, Michael Huffington, Dan Quayle, Jesse Helms, Fritz Hollings, etc., and the party thinks it's just great.
I was firmly on the Reagan bandwagon, but since then the party has gone right down the toilet. I cannot stand their Archie-Bunker-baiting, robber-baron-pandering, religious posturing, goon-squad politics.
I like the idea of a finished, small, and featureful device that uses the music already on your computer on your big stereo. The problem is that this thing costs waaaaay to much. I'd pay a hundred for it, a hundred 125 tops.
Give it a year or so...